Elks fails to compile on Debian 12 due to libc failing to compile. typo maybe?

[sparky4]

Description

• What is expected ?
• to compile the images
• What is observed ?
• it stops very VERY quickly

Configuration

• Version (commit or release):
• latest
• Emulator or HW platform:
• IBM PC

How to reproduce ?

• Does the problem always happen ?
• yes yes
• List the steps to reproduce the problem.
• try to run ./build.sh

Raw data

• Screenshot(s):

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• Log file:

• 
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  * You may now run `make clean` and `make` to build.

Cleaning all... make -C libc clean make[1]: Entering directory '/home/sparky4/p/elks/libc' for DIR in asm ctype debug error gcc getent malloc math misc net regex stdio string system termcap termios time ; do make -C $DIR clean || exit 1; done make[2]: Entering directory '/home/sparky4/p/elks/libc/asm' Makefile:23: target pattern contains no '%'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/sparky4/p/elks/libc/asm' make[1]: [Makefile:240: clean] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/sparky4/p/elks/libc' make: *** [Makefile:36: clean] Error 2 Build script has terminated with error 4

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[sparky4]

I am compiling for ibm pc

[ghaerr]

It seems there may be an incompatibility with the make you are running? Can you run make --version? My version of make is GNU v3.81. It seems the error is occurring quite quickly during make clean. Try that alone to confirm.

[sparky4]

C:\home\sparky4\p\elks> make --version GNU Make 4.3 Built for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

[ghaerr]

This is quite strange; have you tried building before using exactly this method? I am trying to ascertain whether this is a new issue, or perhaps something to do with Debian 12.

Are you running Debian or Windows? I see your path is C:\home\sparky4\p\elks: that's Windows isn't it? The ELKS build is completely untested on Windows. I found the following post explaining that having a backslash in your PATH can cause this problem.

Can you try a simple make clean, then make, to see if that works? If not, then we're likely dealing with incompatibility with your system using Windows-style pathnames separated with backslashes; I won't have a fix for that.

[sparky4]

oh the prompt thing is a custom one dont worry the actual pwd is

C:\home\sparky4\p\elks> pwd
/home/sparky4/p/elks

[sparky4]

i think it's a new issue. i was able to compile it before. i dont know what happened the last few months. i just cannot make libc anymore

[toncho11]

If this is a fresh install of Debian then you need to do something like that in the beginning: apt install build-essential or remove your old copy of elks source and git clone again.

[toncho11]

I am using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)/Ubuntu 20. I did git pull and I managed to compile ELKS on the second time. First time there was some error, but it works for me.

[floriangit]

I'm on Debian 12 as well. Same make version as well. Works. It does not look like ELKS build uses your (exotic) $PS1 to set something odd, but I'm not sure about it much, so maybe try to change it to debian default (and have a clean git clone of ELKS as toncho11 mentioned).

[ghaerr]

It does not look like ELKS build uses your (exotic) $PS1 to set something odd, but I'm not sure about it much, so maybe try to change it to debian default

Agree, I would try changing the prompt, just in case.

[sparky4]

oh ok ill do that

[sparky4]

nope still not compiling

[ghaerr]

Are you running ./build.sh or make clean? The latter is preferred. It also looks like perhaps you may not have configured ELKS. The preferred way to do this is:

$ make menuconfig
(check that .config exists)
$ make clean
$ make

Don't run ./build.sh, it may be contributing to the problem?

[ghaerr]

I would also run the above without any fancy prompt - it looks like you may be running a prompt with a linefeed in it? Try with standard PS1= to eliminate variables, since both @toncho11 and @floriangit are saying this is working fine for them.

I see you got an earlier "ELKS is not configured yet" as well as an error in "Keymaps" directory... it appears as though the build.sh script is continuing and not stopping with errors, which will contribute to the problem. You might want to do as @toncho11 suggested and remove everything and start with a git clone or git pull from scratch, and then only use "make" as described above, no shell scripts.

[sparky4]

ok ill do that

[sparky4]

[sparky4]

[ghaerr]

You're still running a shell script. That's not 'make clean' by itself.

[ghaerr]

Nonetheless, something is definitely wrong with the build environment. I don't know what it is, and I cannot duplicate it since I don't have a Windows or Linux box.

[ghaerr]

The screenshots don't show enough history for me to see what you are doing. I will need a complete execution history in order to debug more. It is possible that the cross development environment is improper, because that is more closely connected to the C library build. You might try 'make kimage' to attempt a kernel only build. I also need you to tell me the results of the explicit instructions that I gave you a couple posts ago.

[tyama501]

I had a chance to download debian-12.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso. I may try to install it later.

[tyama501]

Hello from Debian 12.7. OK, I got the system up. I will try to get elks environment later this week.

[sparky4]

let me build the kernel then

[sparky4]

it is working! :D

[ghaerr]

If it is now working, I suspect the problem was/is that you were running ./build.sh, a shell script that doesn't work with WSL, while make, make clean or make kimage works. Please confirm.

[sparky4]

make and make clean never worked but make kimage works just fine

[tyama501]

make kimage is only for kernel, right?

[sparky4]

yeah it seems

[tyama501]

Hi @sparky4

Are you using build.sh in the repository root or are you using tools/build.sh?

I am now following steps here that uses tools/build.sh https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/blob/master/BUILD.md

[tyama501]

I am still building the compiler but it seems that mtool in my Debian is v4.0.33. That may not work for PC-98. https://github.com/ghaerr/elks/pull/1463

[tyama501]

I could build gcc and started building elks.

I got xxd: not found. I think I have seen this error before (on FreeBSD)

[tyama501]

OK I could apt-get it.

[tyama501]

I got error in elkscmd/sys_utils.

default .config creating by build.sh seems old. I'll try make after copying ibmpc-1440.config to .config.

[ghaerr]

The makeboot.c compilation error is because xxd failed creating the autogenerate header file mbr_autogen.c earlier in elks-master/bootblocks/Makefile:

mbr.bin: mbr.S
    $(CC) $(INCLUDES) -E -o mbr.tmp mbr.S
    $(AS) $(ASFLAGS) -o mbr.o mbr.tmp
    $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -M -o mbr.bin mbr.o > mbr.map
    xxd -i mbr.bin > mbr_autogen.c

You'll probably have to make clean after installing xxd then restart.

If you've gotten this far, that's farther than @sparky4 got, since make clean is where he's getting his error, and I really don't know why.

[tyama501]

OK. Done. The following worked.

cp -a ibmpc-1440.config .config make menuconfig make clean make

I could make fd1440.img.

So, basically it can be built with Debian 12.7 on native PC, if correct .config is used.

[ghaerr]

Thanks for the full build test on Debian 12/WSL @tyama501. I am glad to know see that it works well, and that one should copy the ibmpc-1440.config to .config first. We will see whether @sparky4 can make this work on his repo, or whether a fresh git clone might have to be performed. It appears that @sparky4 built the entire toolchain at one time using tools/build.sh but that ./build.sh doesn't work and now a simple make clean doesn't work on his system.

@sparky4: you might also do a git diff to show if any files have been modified. Also, have you ever built ELKS previously on WSL/Debian?

[floriangit]

since make clean is where he's getting his error

@sparky4

just copy & paste:

make clean 1>my.log 2>&1 ; make 1>>my.log 2>&1

and post the my.log file here would help indeed. I've used build.sh on Debian12 as well and it worked.

[sparky4]

ok let me try

[sparky4]

git diff is empty and here is the log my.log

[sparky4]

yes i previously built elks on both debian systems and they worked before the git pull/git clone

[sparky4]

/home/sparky4/p/elks/libc/asm/Makefile:23: *** target pattern contains no '%'. Stop. this is the error

[ghaerr]

@sparky4, can you try editing libc/asm/Makefile and replacing the following line:

clean:
        $(RM) *.[aod]

with

clean:
        rm -f *.o *.a *.d

Note that the rm -f must be preceded with a TAB character, so don't edit to the left of $(RM), just replace $(RM) with rm -f.

If that doesn't work, can you run printenv or env and post the results or screenshot?

[ghaerr]

Finally if the above three don't work, take the date/time out of your PS1= prompt. make gets confused when it runs into colons and this could cause the issue. You should try running with a standard PS1= prompt, not your custom version.

[sparky4]

i think it's a synthax error

printenv
OWDOCBUILD=1
SHELL=Bourne
SESSION_MANAGER=local/compy4:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/2942,unix/compy4:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2942,inet6/compy4:43337,inet/compy4:38331
WINDOWID=41943077
QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1
COLORTERM=truecolor
PALMDEV=/home/sparky4/p/palmdev_V3
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce-
GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/sparky4/install/lib/pkgconfig/:/home/sparky4/install/share/pkgconfig/
TOPDIR=/home/sparky4/p/elks
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXXXXXUTXFtI/agent.2942
OWGUINOBUILD=1
OS=LINUX
DEV_HOME=/home/sparky4/p/nouveau/
WIPFC=/dos/fdos/watcom/wipfc
XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
DESKTOP_SESSION=xfce
SSH_AGENT_PID=3166
ACLOCAL=aclocal -I /home/sparky4/install/share/aclocal
GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
XDG_SEAT=seat0
ENV=LINUX
PWD=/home/sparky4/p/elks
LOGNAME=sparky4
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=xfce
NVD=/home/sparky4/install
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
REXX=/usr/bin/rexx
XAUTHORITY=/home/sparky4/.Xauthority
XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR=/var/lib/lightdm/data/sparky4
GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8
HOME=/home/sparky4
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=00:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=00:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arc=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lha=01;31:*.lz4=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.tzo=01;31:*.t7z=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lrz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.lzo=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.zst=01;31:*.tzst=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.war=01;31:*.ear=01;31:*.sar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.alz=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.cab=01;31:*.wim=01;31:*.swm=01;31:*.dwm=01;31:*.esd=01;31:*.avif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mjpg=01;35:*.mjpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.webm=01;35:*.webp=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.m4a=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:*.oga=00;36:*.opus=00;36:*.spx=00;36:*.xspf=00;36:*~=00;90:*#=00;90:*.bak=00;90:*.old=00;90:*.orig=00;90:*.part=00;90:*.rej=00;90:*.swp=00;90:*.tmp=00;90:*.dpkg-dist=00;90:*.dpkg-old=00;90:*.ucf-dist=00;90:*.ucf-new=00;90:*.ucf-old=00;90:*.rpmnew=00;90:*.rpmorig=00;90:*.rpmsave=00;90:
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=XFCE
VTE_VERSION=7006
OWOBJDIR=binbuild
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
CROSSDIR=/home/sparky4/p/elks/cross
CLUTTER_IM_MODULE=ibus
WATCOM=/dos/fdos/watcom
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
TERM=xterm-16color
USER=sparky4
ROOT=/home/sparky4/p/osfree
DISPLAY=:0.0
INCLUDE=/usr/include/
MESA_INSTALLDIR=/home/sparky4/p/mesa/
SHLVL=1
TOOLS=/home/sparky4/p/osfree/bin/tools
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
XDG_VTNR=7
XDG_SESSION_ID=1
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/sparky4/install/lib
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
PS1=\[\033[1;32m\]\[\033[45m\]\[\033[1;35m\]\[\033[45m\][\[\033[1;32m\]\[\033[45m\]\t\[\033[1;35m\]\[\033[45m\]]\[\033[1;34m\]\[\033[45m\][\[\033[1;32m\]\[\033[45m\]\w\[\033[1;34m\]\[\033[45m\]]\[\033[40m\]\[\033[1;32m\]\n\[\033[40m\]\[\033[1;34m\][\[\033[40m\]\[\033[1;32m\]\u\[\033[40m\]\[\033[1;35m\]@\[\033[40m\]\[\033[1;32m\]\h\[\033[40m\]\[\033[1;34m\]]\[\033[40m\]\[\033[1;32m\]$\[\033[1;32m\]\[\033[40m\]\[\033[1;32m\] 
OWDOSBOX=dosbox
OWROOT=/home/sparky4/p/watcom2
WD_PATH=/dos/fdos/watcom/binl
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/xfce4:/home/sparky4/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop:/usr/share
PATH=/home/sparky4/p/elks/elks/tools/bin:/home/sparky4/p/elks/cross/bin:/usr/lib/firefox:/home/sparky4/.local/bin:/dos/fdos/watcom/binl:/home/sparky4/p/osfree/bin/tools:/home/sparky4/p/osfree:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
GDMSESSION=xfce
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
OWTOOLS=GCC
LIB=
_=/usr/bin/printenv

[tyama501]

Hi @sparky4

Are you in master branch? If you got trouble after git pull you might not in master. git branch can check it.

Also git diff HEAD show nothing right?

[tyama501]

Have you tried this? cp -a ibmpc-1440.config .config make menuconfig make clean make

[tyama501]

One more thing.

git status

can show modified files.

Some files may failed while merging when git pull.

[sparky4]

yeah i did the copy the config file i am compiling it rn!

[ghaerr]

Thanks for the printenv output @sparky4. I was hoping to see something abnormal in PATH=, but it looks OK.

yeah i did the copy the config file i am compiling it rn!

I take that to mean you can compile with make kimage but not make clean?

clean:
        rm -f *.o *.a *.d

Did you try the above change, detailed in my post above?

Can you try changing your prompt using export PS1=sparky and then running make clean?

The only other item that is a unfamiliar is SHELL=Bourne, rather than SHELL=/bin/sh or something like that. Can you change to BASH Shell somehow, or is Bourne the WSL option?

[sparky4]

hmmm i think it is make itself being problematic.. i tried on both machines